Quick GMC Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) This is some severe lack of planning going on here. The best part is that they even bothered to put the edge of the box into the trunk, like "it might fit if we try." Edited September 30, 2014 by Quick GMC
BenfromKC Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 You know, while they're at Ikea, they should pick up the Produkt Milk Frother. It makes an excellent paint stirrer with some minor modifications, and it's only $2.49. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10076320/?query=produkt
Joe Handley Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Used to work for Toys "R" Us, been there, put that on the roof.........
Ace-Garageguy Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) Well, you know, a lot of women have a difficult time with spacial visualization. Some scientists believe it's actual hard-wiring in their brains. I think it's more likely that they've all been convinced that 4" is really 6. Edited September 30, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy
Petetrucker07 Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 I think it's more likely that they've all been convinced that 4" is really 6. HAHAHA. Is that the same as saying a vienna sausage and a brät are the same
Mike Kucaba Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 As a cigar smoker I liken it to the difference between a corona and a gordo
Tom Geiger Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Used to work for Toys "R" Us, been there, put that on the roof......... That's a 700 lb block of solid press board! My daughter bought one of those boxes. She had the brains to have it delivered. Still I couldn't move that box from the front porch. I had to empty it and bring the pieces inside!
ShredHippie Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 It's not just women... I used to work in a dept store warehouse and guys would buy big a$$ TVs then pull up to the doors in Honda...
cobraman Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 I saw the same thing when I worked at Petco. Folks would buy a huge aquarium and then want it shoved in a compact 2 door with out a hatch.
Joe Handley Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 It was the same for TRU, buy a Power Wheel and pull up in a Sunfire or Eldorado (not joking on either there), buy a Little Tikes back yard play set and roll up in an Infinity Sedan, buy a couple 50lb bags of playgound sand and sand box then drive a drop top Ferrari to the front door to get the sand (yes, I have see that too?!) And come back with friends car to pick up sand box, tied a full swing set to the roof on an old FWD Seville sedan too. The real surprise was the two couples that came and picked up at least a 1/2 ton (literally at least 1000lbs) and spread it between their minivans. One van was one of the later versions of the old Plastic Chevy Lumina Vans and the other was an early and then still fairly new to the market Windstar Minivan. By the time we got the two vans loaded with about the same weight between the front and rear wheels, the Windstar was practically dragging while the plastic Chevy took the weight like a champ!
Quick GMC Posted October 1, 2014 Author Posted October 1, 2014 It's not just women... I used to work in a dept store warehouse and guys would buy big a$$ TVs then pull up to the doors in Honda... Doesn't matter. if a guy buys a TV, he will find a way to get it home
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 Doesn't matter. if a guy buys a TV, he will find a way to get it home I've seen things so heavy strapped to the roofs of cars, the sheetmetal was buckled and collapsed in the center. I guess the thought was that it would just "pop out" when the weight was removed. Wrong.
Joe Handley Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 I've seen things so heavy strapped to the roofs of cars, the sheetmetal was buckled and collapsed in the center. I guess the thought was that it would just "pop out" when the weight was removed. Wrong. That's exactly how the roof of that old Caddy looked when we put the swingset on the roof and tied it down!
Tom Geiger Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 Doesn't matter. if a guy buys a TV, he will find a way to get it home Like back when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Government gave people free debit cards and some of them dragged big screen TVs back to the stadium where they were being sheltered. I remember watching the news and there's this dude sitting there with his arm around a big box... no place to live, no food and no place to plug it in!
Petetrucker07 Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 Priorities. Some things are more important than others. Like the sand box for the kids, in a Ferrari. Lets go to TRU and way way overpay for the sand. When any landscape or rock yard could have it delivered by a dump truck. Goes back to the whole, more dollars than sense, way of thinkin
southpier Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 after reading the title, I thought it meant .... oh, never mind....
High octane Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 That's one of the reasons I have a truck for a daily driver, so I can "haul" stuff that I or my wife buys.
cobraman Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 Something similar happened to me. A few months ago my wife and I were taking a trip to San Diego to visit my daughter. We had a 47 in. flat screen tv we were not using and decided to take it to her. My wife always rents us a car when we go there. We get to Enterprise I find she rented a Chevy Spark. A Spark ? No way would I drive a car that small on a road trip and no way would the tv fit in that car. Luckily they did not have one and upgraded us to an Nissan Altima and the tv did squeeze into the back seat on that. Spark may be a good car for around town but for me, not on a road trip. Wife thought since I pack good that there wouldn't be any trouble.
Danno Posted October 1, 2014 Posted October 1, 2014 Whaddyamean? Why's it unsafe, Officer? I can still see out the windshield!
Tom Geiger Posted October 2, 2014 Posted October 2, 2014 (edited) My wife always rents us a car when we go there. We get to Enterprise I find she rented a Chevy Spark. A Spark ? No way would I drive a car that small on a road trip and no way would the tv fit in that car. L any trouble. Okay Ray, you earned a story! Back when my buddy Bill and I went to GSL for the first time in 2001, we got to Salt Lake and took the bus to the rental company. We got in very late in the evening and the rental folks were just buttoning up a deal with a family with a mess of skis into an SUV. That's when they told us they had only one car left! (Which was a tad better than when I got to St Thomas and they told me they were out of cars, come back tomorrow!) The car they had left... a 3 cylinder Geo / Chevy speck of a car! The two door variety yet, which is even smaller than the four door of the same car. And this sewing machine of an engine was further stifled by an automatic transmission. So Bill and I are not little people. We fit our luggage in the back and now we are filling the front passenger cavity of this car. I think our arms touched! We figure that it's good enough for the airport to Salt Lake City for the show. Then we get the bright idea to drive to Bonneville on Sunday, since we were flying out on Monday. I will tell everyone that there is no reason at all to go there if it's not race week. Outside of the racing season there is friggin nothing there at all. Everything used for the races must be portable because the entire experience there was a road that led to a cul de sac kinda space with a driveway cut into the curb. Oh, and a huge sign to tell you where you are. Only the locals have shot a lot of guns at it so it's pretty damaged. Still, us tourists have our pictures taken with this poor old sign. And what is the only thing there? Augie Hiscano! Yea, he had left GSL and beat us there. Pretty funny actually. So I digress... being from the East Coast, when we look at a map and the distance is an inch or two, we figure it's an hour's ride. Well, things don't work like that out west. That trip from Salt Lick City to Bonneville turns out to be like 120 miles of vast nothing. I mean friggin nothing at all.. an occasional exit that resulted in a dirt road going out of sight. But if you didn't fill up in Salt Lake, there was but one gas station / rest stop on this route. So we head out onto Route 80 in this tiny little Geo Speck. Bill is driving and this little bugger is screaming like a Cessna trying to take off. Only it doesn't. So Bill doesn't feel it's safe to go faster than maybe 70 mph in this vibrating little toy. Now this is the route to Nevada and everyone is going like 90... BMWs, tractor trailers and the derned casino busses speeding down to Wendover, the casino town right over the border. The cops don't even seem to care that everyone is going 90. As we truck along at 65-70mph, we are seriously in the way, and are reminded of this every time one of them rapidly approaches our rear and vears to the other lane at the last minute. Every time one of them passes us, the entire Geo rocks and feels like it's going to fall over. So we held our breath the entire way.. both ways. A trip to remember for sure. We did make it safely back to our hotel in Salt Lake. On Monday morning we head to the airport and to the Enterprise rental return to get rid of this friggin little piece of carp. The rental agent approaches us smiling and asks how our trip was... I just start screaming at this poor guy, telling him that we had reserved a normal car and they gave us this infernal little bug that ruined our whole trip. He tried to calm me down by cutting the bill in half, but I kept yelling about how they nearly got us killed... and he finally gave up and told me there was no bill at all. Just shut up and please leave.... oh, and thank you for using Enterprise! Edited October 2, 2014 by Tom Geiger
cobraman Posted October 2, 2014 Posted October 2, 2014 I will have to try that. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
southpier Posted October 2, 2014 Posted October 2, 2014 I remember those great models Augie Hiscano built. imagine actually using jewelers screws and watch crystal cement. what - 1964?
Rob Hall Posted October 2, 2014 Posted October 2, 2014 Doesn't matter. if a guy buys a TV, he will find a way to get it home IIRC, when I got the 50 inch HDTV I was able to bring it home in my Jeep w/ the back seat folded down. Had to have the 65 inch one delivered.
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